Getting Lucky With Crystal in Homestead

I’m going to open this post with an apology for anyone who’s corporate firewall gets triggered by this URL, but I just couldn’t resist the title.

A few days ago a random internet stranger (Rid) showed up in the Larachat Slack #homestead-dev room. This is about the best real time chat support for Homestead. Rid proceeds to ask about building something like Homestead for the framework he was working on called Lucky for the Crystal programming language. After we chatted about Vagrant and Docker I mentioned that it wouldn’t be too difficult to get supported in Homestead. Rid shared some helpful URLs and I was off to the races.

The next base box version of Homestead will have this preinstalled, but if you want to start getting Lucky with Crystal in Homestead right away…